Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson opens a Variety op-ed about “Selma’s” Oscar snub by defaming America: “Are we a racist country? Yes,” Levinson writes. He does throw America a bone by saying we are getting better, yet offers no proof to back up his smear. If, however, one wanted to prove Hollywood is racist, the left-wing director’s own films could be easily introduced as a devastating Exhibit A.

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Despite being an A-List director in a business swimming in superb black actors and actresses most directors would crawl over glass to work with, a serious look at Levinson’s resume reveals a director who appears to go out of his way to work only with white people.

Below is a list of more than two-dozen films directed by Levinson over the last 37 years. Except for casting the great Samuel L. Jackson in the wretched “Sphere,” a girlfriend role in “Liberty Heights,” and the best friend role in “Good Morning Vietnam,” I could not find a single black star cast in a single top role. In fact, it’s shocking how few black actors Levinson has cast in any role.

Hell, five years before the Selma March, John Ford made “Sergeant Rutledge.” In the decades since Selma, Levinson has never once centered a film around a black star. Not once.

Barry Levinson trashing America as racist is like water complaining about wet.